Message: 3
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:13:13 +1000
From: Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales post on Huffington Post
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If however the actual result is a shift in
editing cultural
attitudes (measured for instance in the rate of non-BLP
articles being semied or protected after the introduction
of FR) towards a stricter and more defensive attitude
towards addition of new information, there clearly are
metrics to evaluate that, and that will be proof of the
other sort.
Yep. I, for one, am quite apprehensive about what this will mean in
practice. My real fear is that anonymous editors will become even more
marginalised and the rate of new editors will slow further. However, I
have no concrete basis for thinking this, so I'm keeping quiet about
it.
Steve
I'm quite keen both on the idea of allowing IP edits on semiprotected
articles via flagged revisions; and on the idea of protecting more
biographies of living people either by semi protection or flagged
revisions. But I agree that we will need to be able to analyze what
happens.
I'm pretty sure that the number of semi protected articles is on the
rise; So to meaningfully measure the impact of flagged revisions we
will need to compare the number of articles protected this way against
a projection of how many would have become protected via semi
protection if flagged revisions had not come along. We also need
baseline figures for the number of edits on semiprotected pages that
are currently achieved by IP editors requesting them on talkpages,
against the future number of IP edits to currently semi-protected
articles that will be flagged as OK by other users and go live.
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